Learning Materials

From the West Yorkshire Archives we've found some amazing documents about women past and present. You can investigate real case notes about women in a lunatic asylum. You can follow women's path from war to pacifism.

There are fact files, worksheets, resources sheets and quizzes as well as original photographs.

Life in a Lunatic Asylum

Mad or ill? No matter, if you were poor, it was the lunatic asylum for you!

Find out about life in the asylum, the routine, the treatments and what happened to some of the inmates.

Women and War

Looking at how women have been affected by war.

Find out about advice to mothers, what happens when there are no men to marry, and why women are against war.